Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards, delivering a sweeping look at the last 100 years that included memories of his 1963 South Carolina home.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards, delivering a sweeping look at the last 100 years that included memories of his 1963 South Carolina home.

Alpine, the Austrian unit of Spanish construction group FCC , will hold talks with its owners on how to meet its financing needs and has many options open, Chief Executive Arnold Schiefer said.

With the broad S&P 500 Index gliding once again into uncharted territory and posting four straight weeks of gains, the talk of Wall Street's rally inevitably hitting a ceiling is starting to get old.

Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.

Yahoo Inc's board will meet on Sunday to vote on whether to offer $1.

A former investment-banking analyst at a unit of Bank of Montreal (BMO) agreed to pay a total of 1.2 million Canadian dollars ($1.2 million) among other penalties to settle insider-trading charges, as Canada's biggest securities regulators continue to clamp down on inappropriate trading activity.

Caterpillar Inc's deal to cut the purchase price of a Chinese mining-equipment maker it bought last year ends an embarrassing episode that overshadowed the company's effort to expand in China and distracted its executives for months.

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Onex Corp has called off its auction of medical imaging firm Carestream Health Inc after failing to find a buyer that was willing to meet its price expectation of as much as $3.

A federal judge has revived a closely watched lawsuit accusing JPMorgan Chase & Co of misleading Belgian-French bank Dexia SA into buying more than $1.

ZUG, Switzerland (Reuters) - Transocean Ltd shareholders voted out Chairman Michael Talbert at the annual meeting on Friday and backed a nominee of activist investor Carl Icahn to replace him on the board of the world's largest offshore drilling contractor.

It was IPO Friday for the tech sector, as enthusiasm for the public debuts of Tableau Software Inc. and Marketo Inc. reached lofty levels, and Facebook Inc. managed to eke out a small gain on the one-year anniversary of its controversial IPO. Facebook (FB) ended th day up by 12 cents at $26.25, but the social-networking giant's shares are still down 30% since the company went public at $38 a share on May 18, 2012.

U.K.-listed, Kazakhstan-focused miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. PLC (ENRC.LN) rejected Friday an indicative cash and shares offer from a consortium of buyers on grounds that it materially undervalued the business.

U.S. stocks on Friday advanced to a fourth weekly gain, with both the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 at all-time closes, after data cast a positive spin on the economy.

Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase & Co cut off polling information to the bank's opponents.

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The chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said Friday banks aren't likely to have unlimited choices when it comes to risk-weighting and expects limits to be set.

The chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said Friday banks aren't likely to have unlimited choices when it comes to risk-weighting and expects limits to be set.

A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation.

The chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said Friday banks aren't likely to have unlimited choices when it comes to risk-weighting, and he expects regulators will narrow their choices.

U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp has received formal approval from California's attorney general to buy a BP Plc refinery for more than $2 billion.

Unemployment rates dropped in 43 out of the 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia in April from a year before, according to Labor Department data released on Friday.

After months of speculation, Vodafone's Vittorio Colao will be under pressure next week to set out whether he may sell its prized stake in Verizon Wireless in what would be one of the biggest deals ever.

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SunTrust Banks Inc won a court order on Friday preventing a Connecticut-based hedge fund from moving forward with a $13 million arbitration over mortgage-backed securities.

Tech stocks mostly held on to gains in afternoon trading Friday, with Facebook Inc. edging upward on its one-year anniversary of going public and two other tech companies posting strong gains in the wake of their IPOs.

Transocean Ltd. (RIG, RIGN.VX) shareholders voted overwhelmingly Friday to reject a $4 a share dividend proposal by activist investor Carl Icahn but ousted long-time company Chairman Michael Talbert and added one of Mr. Icahn's candidates to the offshore drilling giant's board of directors.

The Federal Reserve has not done enough to lower U.S. borrowing costs to boost economic growth, a top Fed official said on Friday, citing his outlook for overly low inflation and overly high unemployment over the next two to three years.

Copper futures settled higher Friday on data pointing to economic improvement in Europe and the U.S. and as one of the world's largest copper mines remains shut after a fatal accident.